{"id":1779547,"date":"2022-12-18T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779547"},"modified":"2022-12-18T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T00:17:59","slug":"uninformed-vitriol-cnn-boss-chris-licht-swings-at-the-left-over-stunning-reaction-to-his-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uninformed-vitriol-cnn-boss-chris-licht-swings-at-the-left-over-stunning-reaction-to-his-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Uninformed Vitriol\u2019: CNN Boss Chris Licht Swings At \u2018The Left\u2019 Over \u2018Stunning\u2019 Reaction To His Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funinformed-vitriol-cnn-boss-chris-licht-swings-at-the-left-over-stunning-reaction-to-his-reforms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> CEO Chris Licht says he has taken a \u201cstunning\u201d level of hate, mostly from the Left, since taking over the top job at CNN earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Licht was named CNN\u2019s chief in February and has since overhauled the company, scrapping its online streaming service CNN+ and laying off a slew of its most prominent personalities. Licht has done so in an attempt to remake the network into a more balanced news outlet that hosts a \u201crational conversation about polarizing issues\u201d rather than largely catering to one side of the political aisle, Licht told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/18\/business\/media\/chris-licht-cnn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the critics Licht has gained in his new post, he says the most \u201cuniformed vitriol\u201d comes from the left, the audience that CNN had tailored its message most for under previous leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe uninformed vitriol, especially from the left, has been stunning,\u201d Licht told the Times. \u201cWhich proves my point: so much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his short tenure, Licht has let go of high-profile journalists, columnists, and contributors such as Brian Stelter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Harwood<\/a>, Jeffrey Toobin, and Chris Cillizza. Licht has also attempted to balance some of the network\u2019s left-wing slant by bringing on Stephen Gutowski, founder of the firearms reporting site The Reload, as a contributor.<\/p>\n<p>Licht has also moved around some of CNN\u2019s lineup. He moved host Don Lemon out of a prime-time slot and into a morning show with two other cohosts. Licht attempted to move host Jake Tapper into former host Chris Cuomo\u2019s prime-time slot, but Tapper\u2019s tenure there proved to be short lived. Cuomo had been let go by the network months earlier, after an internal investigation reportedly concluded that the host had inappropriately attempted to help his brother, Andrew Cuomo, as the former New York governor was mired in scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Licht said he did not want to make CNN into a \u201ccentrist\u201d outlet by bringing on people like Gutowski. Instead, he wants to make the network more interesting through debates between well-informed people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not vanilla, centrist or boring,\u201d he told the Times. \u201cThe change is we will not do Trump 24\/7 or let him dictate our agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expressed similar sentiments to The Financial Times weeks ago when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/that-is-bulls-cnn-head-honcho-says-hes-not-interested-in-being-centrist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> about his moved to cut partisanship out of CNN\u2019s coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest misconceptions about my vision is that I want to be vanilla, that I want to be centrist. That is bulls***,\u201d Licht said. He said he is more interested in making an informative and interesting experience for the viewer than focusing on left and right politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be compelling. You have to have edge. In many cases you take a side. Sometimes you just point out uncomfortable questions. But either way you don\u2019t see it through a lens of left or right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN CEO Chris Licht says he has taken a \u201cstunning\u201d level of hate, mostly from the Left, since taking over the top job at CNN earlier this year. Licht was named CNN\u2019s chief in February and has since overhauled the company, scrapping its online streaming service CNN+ and laying off a slew of its most &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1779550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10134,10135,6962,8650,4270,9373,6202,3691,10137,7048,10138,10133,10136,6195],"class_list":["post-1779547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-stunning","tag-uninformed","tag-the","tag-boss","tag-chris","tag-cnn","tag-daily","tag-left","tag-licht","tag-reaction","tag-reforms","tag-swings","tag-vitriol","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}